I think you're overvaluing a half retained Barrie and a third rounder, or over estimating the cap crunch. While I would like another right handed dman, giving up one of the ones we've got to get one seems pointless. Plus, while we've got a few too many centers I don't see us giving up two of them, especially for some cap relief that can likely get handled just ditching Clarkson's hit either through trade or otherwise and a forward.
I also think our 2019 first rounder is completely off the table for most anything.
Thank you for the well thought out reply. Let me preface this with: I’m currently home sick from work and have some free time on my hands haha.
My value being off is most likely due to a mixture of over valuing Barrie at 50% plus a third as well as the Vegas cap crunch.
The first being off the table is fair and something I’d have no problem working around, but obviously decent value would need to come back.
So first off I’ll dive into the value of Barrie a bit. Since 2014/15 Barrie is tied for 9th in defensive scoring with 244 points in 366 games giving him a ppg of 0.67. In this same period Colorado has been a playoff team once (last year) and has been the bottom of the league once. This obviously suggest that he’s done pretty well in terms of offense on some pretty poor teams while also being able to remain relatively healthy. Now it might not come as a shock that Barrie isn’t the best in his own zone, but he isn’t a black hole either in his own zone. He provides a good ability to break the puck out by either skating or passing it. Now a top 10 offensive dman at $2.75 mil for a full season allows for not only better players on the team for that year, but also cuts down on the cap of another team for a full year. A third is a third, not usesless, but far from ideal.
Looking into VGK cap situation for next year according to capfriendly Vegas has ~$82.375 ties up in cap space for next season with 6 more skaters needing to be signed. Most notably Karlsson who will likely want a slight raise. Now assuming Karlsson asks for ~$6mil and Clarksons cap hit is moved I’ll make the assumption Vegas will be sitting at $83 mil with 5 players to sign. We’ll assume two rookies are brought up (~$1.85mil) that still leaves three players including a backup goaltender to be signed. So Vegas would be sitting with approximately $85mil in cap with the salary cap projected to be $83mil according to sports net and Bettman. Even if the three players are offered $1mil Vegas would be approximately $5 mil over the cap.
Now there’s obviously room to trade players like Eakin for low or negative value to help with cap or trade a valuable asset for a less valuable one, but in my proposed trade you are still getting good value top 10 offensive dman for in my opinion replaceable assests.
Would you be interested in Barrie for a different package and if so what?